AI Delivery Lead

Talenza; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza in Sydney is seeking an AI Delivery Lead to bridge business and technology, turning AI ideas into practical outcomes within a hybrid Sydney work setup.

You will identify AI opportunities across functions, build business cases, coordinate delivery with vendors and internal teams, and drive adoption to realise measurable benefits and value for the organisation. You will engage stakeholders, maintain governance, and ensure responsible AI practices while delivering on time and budget.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI, automation, digital or data-driven initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• The ability to identify opportunities and turn ideas into executable plans.
• Experience working across both business and technology teams.
• Practical understanding of AI, GenAI, automation and modern technology platforms.
• Experience navigating governance, risk, privacy and regulatory considerations.
• Strong commercial thinking and a focus on measurable outcomes.
• A proactive, self-starting mindset with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done.

Responsibilities

• Identify and shape AI opportunities across multiple business functions.
• Build business cases and define the value of AI initiatives.
• Coordinate delivery across business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors and external partners.
• Drive AI initiatives from concept through to implementation and adoption.
• Assess solution options, challenge assumptions and work through delivery complexities.
• Establish appropriate governance, risk and responsible AI controls.
• Support AI capability uplift through training, enablement and change activities.
• Track adoption, business outcomes and realised benefits.
• Help build repeatable processes and ways of working that support the scale-up of AI across the organisation.

Skills

AI delivery

Stakeholder Engagement

Opportunity spotting

Business-IT alignment

AI governance

Regulatory awareness

Commercial mindset

Self-starter

Job description

AI Delivery Lead

Sydney | Hybrid

An enterprise organisation is looking for an AI Delivery Lead to help turn ideas into practical business outcomes.
Technical knowledge of AI, business acumen and the ability to deliver with a slim team will be required to be successful in this role.

Seeking someone who sits between business and technology, understands AI well enough to engage with technical teams, and can take ownership of opportunities from idea through to implementation, adoption and value realisation.
You'll be responsible for identifying and prioritising AI use cases, building stakeholder support, coordinating delivery, working with vendors and technology partners, and ensuring solutions are adopted and delivering measurable outcomes.

• Identify and shape AI opportunities across multiple business functions.
• Build business cases and define the value of AI initiatives.
• Coordinate delivery across business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors and external partners.
• Drive AI initiatives from concept through to implementation and adoption.
• Assess solution options, challenge assumptions and work through delivery complexities.
• Establish appropriate governance, risk and responsible AI controls.
• Support AI capability uplift through training, enablement and change activities.
• Track adoption, business outcomes and realised benefits.
• Help build repeatable processes and ways of working that support the scale-up of AI across the organisation.

• Experience delivering AI, automation, digital or data-driven initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• The ability to identify opportunities and turn ideas into executable plans.
• Experience working across both business and technology teams.
• Practical understanding of AI, GenAI, automation and modern technology platforms.
• Experience navigating governance, risk, privacy and regulatory considerations.
• Strong commercial thinking and a focus on measurable outcomes.
• A proactive, self-starting mindset with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done

The ideal profile will have:

• Proven ability to take AI initiatives from discovery and business case development through to deployment, adoption and measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, risk and compliance requirements, ensuring appropriate controls and guardrails are embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Technically credible across AI, Agentic AI and LLM-based solutions, with the ability to engage with and challenge engineering, data and vendor teams when required.
• Experience driving AI capability uplift, helping teams build the knowledge, skills and ways of working required to successfully deliver and scale AI initiatives